AronT on August 30th, 2003

A thoroughly depressing look at the impact of “the Jerusalem envelope” on the lives of Palestinian residents of Jerusalem.

“‘This is going to blow up in our faces,’ says one of the senior officials responsible for the Jerusalem envelope at a discussion that dealt with the human tangle that has been created.”

“‘Talk to me in operational terms, not humanitarian terms,’ retorted a senior commander, as though people do not already know that in this area, a ‘humanitarian problem’ can become an ‘operational problem’ within a very short time.”